The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-13
FLORIDA.


yer public school
John Andreu, an old resident of St. An
. gIstine, is at the point of death.
1t is estimated that the recent term of
court will cost Brevard county about 81. 900
, Up to date $500 boxes of oranges and
lemons have been shipped from NewSmyrna.
Over :. ZOO pounds Of fresh fish have been
shipped from New smyrna in the past six
days.
Gov. Perry will attend the Oakland cele-
bration. after which be will doubtless make
a tour of South Florida.
There will be n meeting Of the Fruit
and Vegetable Growers Association at
Cocoa, on Saturday, Nov 10, at 10 o'clock
a. m.
At Tallahassee. tho Supreme Court hand
ed down the following decision Friday:
Alice Mundee VS.. Frederick X Freeman,
Marion county, affirmed.
+. L. Joyce, manager of the st. Augustine
Water Company, has just succeeded in
striking n splendid flow from n new six-inch
well near the barracks basin.
On or about Nov. IS. a fast mail train
will be put on The Florida Southern railway
between Paatka and Puuta Gorda. which
will make the time in ten hours. There
will be only two stops between Barlow and
Trabue.
Money was quite plentiful in st. Angus
tine last week. The pay car of the st. Au-
gustine and Halifax railroad went through,
and the Ponce de Leon employees, and the
soldiers Of the United States garrison re
ceived their pay.
Most of the bearing groves in the vicinity
Of Lake Helen, Nousia county, are without
fruit this year. Reddin Longs grove, a
small one, is well loaded, and Mr. West
lake's part of the Prevatt has about third
of crop These are about the only groves
that have any fruit on.
NJ NJ Woodward. of Sumterville. has
! built fine automatic stereoscope, which
will show twenty views ut the same time,
and allot certain time for their inspection.
| 1t will be on exhibition at the Sub-Tropical,
1 and Mr. Woodward invites correspondence
| from all who may wish to have views pre-
sented
H. NJ. Flagler arrived at st. Augustine
| Thursday, on a special train from Jackson
vile, having arrived from New York ON the
same day. Mr. Flagler's movements are of
| much interest 10 the citizens of st. Angus
| tine, as their prosperity and lie future well
| fare Of the city is largely and will be greatly
affected by bis plans for the Improvement
of the town.
| Thirty-six wildcat hides We're brought to
| the Brevard County Commissioners at their
session Tuesday which brought the hunters
the aggregate sum of S10S The County
| Clerk thinks that unless scme remedy is
applied TO the law statute, the county will
| be bankrupted buying these hides. The
number killed each month has increased at
the rate of 200 per cent.
The inner court of tina Ponce de Leon
Hotel at st. Augustine has undergone
striking transformation within a few DAYS.
The barren waste of land has sudde Ily been
changed to beautiful tropical garden full
of palms and tropical plants. In a short
time the entire grounds surrounding the
hotel will, under the skillful direction of
Mr.. Barrett, the famous landscape gardener
and architect, undergo similar change
DR. L. F. Smith who was nominated on
the Peoples ticket for Alderman of St Au-
gustine without his knowledge, sent letter
of declination which was published on the
morning of the election. Notwithstanding
the fact he received equally as large a num-
her of votes as anyone on that ticket Mr..
Smith business in his profession is so great
that he cannot find time to attend to the
duties pertaining TO the Office of Alderman
The Norwegian bark Svaleu entered at
the custom house at Pensacola Thursday
with 5O2 tons Of steel rail for the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad Company. When
the duty on this cargo has been paid. the
Louisville and Nashville railroad will have
paid into Uncle Sans Golfers, through the
custom house at Pensacola, over S75 900 i'm
port duty on steel rails within the past sixty
days. They have several cargoes yet to
come.
At st. Augustine Thursday, the trial of
Henry Glover before Judge MacWilliams
for mansIaughter, resulted in the acouittal
OF the prisoner. Policeman Robert Cham
bers attempted to arrest Glover, and he
latter was dubbed severely by the officer.
Glover resisted the arrest, and in the scuffie
Chambers received injuries resulting in his
death, which occurred on Tuesday last.
Glover left Thursday morning for Jackson
vile.
Charley Jones (coloredD was captured near
Jasper Monday morning last with a supply
of dry goods, boots and shoes, in two bags,
which he carried across his shoulder, ala
saddlebag. Jones had suddenly become inn
bued with such strong communistic views
that he included 10 make travelling mer-
chandise establishment cut of himself at the
expense of w. d. Barnes, of Tarver, Ga,
where1pon he broke into the store OF Mr..
Barnes, with confederate Jones was
taken back TO Georgia. The other party
has not been captured.
The Governor has made the following an
pointments for Jackson county: John W.
Poser to be County Judge, John Milton 20
be County Treasurer, Alfred Nichols TO he
County Commissioner, and A. c. White to
De county surveyor. FOR Columbia county:
Frank De Ferro to he Justice of the Peace.
For Franklin county: w. C. Campbell to
be Justice of the Peace. For Hamilton
county: Wiley Lee to be County Commis-
sioner, w. ID. Smith and n. S. Hall 10 be
Justices of the Peace. Levy county: Ira j.
Carter TO be Justice of the Peace.
The st. Augustine street car franchise of
R. L. Irwin q Bro mas recently been
sold to q New York party of means who in
tends to push the work of construction in n
short time A street railroad win be built
from Charlotte street on the plaza to a point
on Tomokee avenue in New ST. Augustine.
and also line will be extended to the
Ponce de Leon spring on the Ravenswood
tract. This will be of immense advantage
to New st. Augustine, and will result in the
building up of that already thriving suburb
TO an enormous extent. Property in that
section is already feeling the effect of this
coming improvement.
There was large meeting of the Orlando
Board of Trade in the arm0ry building Fri
day. Much enthusiasm was manifested and
the work for the winter was thoroughly
mapped and planned. A committee of five
was appointed to urge the County Commits
sioners to make appropriations for both the
Sub-Tropical and South Florida Exposi-
tions. Messrs. Nat Payntz, w b. Randolph
and c. A. Baird were appointed to 90 to
Atlanta on Nov. II and urge the necessity
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